Sociology, Department of
ORCID IDs
Mattingly https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2210-3695
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2024
Citation
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (2024) 10(5): 1–31
Abstract
We make the case for building a permanent public-use platform for conducting and analyzing immersive interviews on the everyday lives of Americans. The American Voices Project (AVP)—a widely watched experiment with this new platform—provides important early evidence on its promise. The articles in this issue reveal that, although public-use interview datasets obviously cannot meet all research needs, they do provide new opportunities to study small or hidden populations, new or emerging social problems, reactions to ongoing social crises, submerged values and attitudes, and many other aspects of American life. We conclude that a permanent AVP platform would help build an “open science” form of qualitative research that complements— rather than replaces—the existing very important body of immersive-interviewing research.
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Comments
Copyright 2024, the authors. Open access material
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